ROCKARIA!
(read it: “rock-ah-ree-ah”)
Electric Light Orchestra (New World Record)
NOTE: The small letters indicate notes, not chords
Weit
hinter in die ferne
man hört, man hört
die Musik
/
Just got back from the downtown palais
Where the music was so sweet
It knocked me right back in the alley
I'm ready
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm ready
Whoa, whoa, whoa, I'm ready
- -
And I'm really gonna rock tonight
Sweet little lady sings, like a songbird
And she sings the opera like you ain't never heard
But she ain't ready
No, no, no, she ain't ready
No, no, no, she ain't ready
( )
And she ain't gonna rock & roll
( )
She's sweet on Wagner
( )
I think she'd die for Beethoven
( )
She loves the way Puccini lays down a tune
( )
And Verdi's always creeping from her room
Weit
hinter in die ferne
man hört, man hört
die Musik
/
Come on I'll show you how to sing the blues
Now baby, come on over over, you got nothin' to lose
Are you ready?
Hey, hey, hey, are you ready?
Ooh, ooh, ooh, are you ready?
- -
I wanna show you how to rock and roll
Now listen here baby she, said to me
Just meet me at the opera house at quarter to three
Cause I'm ready
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm ready
Woo, hoo, hoo, I'm ready
( )
I'm gonna show you how to sing the blues
N.C (uhh)
She's sweet on Wagner
(uhuhh) ( G6add9)
I think she'd die for Beethoven
( ) ( )
She loves the way Puccini lays down a tune
( ) ( )
And Verdi's always creeping from her room
_
Faaaar far away the music i-i-is playing | both
Oh far far away The music is... Playin' _|
Well we were reelin' and rockin' all through the night
Ya we were rockin at the opera house until the break of light
And the orchestra was playin' all Chuck Berry's greatest tunes
And the singers in the chorus all got off on them singin' blues
And as the night grew older everybody was as one
The people on the streets came runnin' in to join in song
Just to hearing the opera singers singing rock and roll so pure
I thought I saw the mayor there, But I wasn't really sure
But it's al- right
(ohh ohh ah Ah Uhhh)